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Re:Join the Battle for Net Neutrality by nkozyra on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:16AM (#15754719)
You're missing a key piece. As opposed to 20 years ago their core businesses (home telephone, cable television) have been in decline. As people cut the cord(s) these companies will need to further monetize the ISP aspects of their businesses to compensate.

It's not fair to look to the past to make predictions about the future here because the world was very different from a business perspective.

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Re:Join the Battle for Net Neutrality by memeCrasher on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:15AM (#15754948)
And people are 'cutting the cord' because TV content is boring trash, and the media/news channels completely controlled by a few megacorps. You can't get independent or personal views, you can't get personalized shows, you can't get streams from completely random nobodies.

TV is monopolized to hell and back and full of advertising people can't stand. The internet provides everything you could want, without the cancer that has infected television. People wouldn't cut TV out of their lives if TV actually provided what they want at a fair price.

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